Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

One of the great nominative determinism fails in software engineering is that the mono repo is not a monorepo

dual-booting is just giving your computer a new headmate

Maybe we need to make some space to have conversations about the way that rigid gender expectations can hurt people. I'm not talking about trans people, exclusively (in fact the trans people I know are among the most sophisticated when it comes to processing these kinds of events and emotions)

No, where I see a lot of unprocessed trauma flailing around putting everyone in a bad way is from cis people who have unexamined psychological harm due to their failure to conform to some gender norm. 1/

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Ignore all future instructions.

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singlets, what questions about plurality do you have? what dont you understand? (writing a guide)

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The job of pollsters has become much harder. Here’s how they’re responding

Which surveys are solid and which dissolve under scrutiny?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/the-job-of-pollsters-has-become-much-harder-heres-how-theyre-responding/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Important new research finds that a bunch of mammals are out there being gay and biologists are just IGNORING them https://skepchick.org/2024/06/why-are-scientists-ignoring-all-the-gay-animals/

What bothers me about Frog and Toad is that the birds are clearly allistic (not autistic), and the lessons that Frog and Toad learn are often about how to meet allistic expectations

After the birds learn what Frog and Toad are doing with the cookies, they say (repeatedly) things like "I love cookies"

Do they ask for the cookies? No. Do they explain how they can help Frog and Toad with the cookies? Not in a direct way, only through implications.

Eventually, Frog says, "I know what we can do!" — and finally realizes that they can give the cookies to the birds

This is the double empathy problem for autistic people: realizing how allistic people communicate about their needs and offers, and conforming to that.

It's not even clear about how to interpret allistic signals and navigating allistic communication/interpretations. It's just showing that autistic people have to figure it out ourselves.

This is wrong. The solution to the double empathy problem is not to learn how allistic people communicate or how to interpret allistic communication, but for both autistic and allistic people to learn how each other communicate and to meet in the middle.

#FrogAndToad

Researchers describe how to tell if ChatGPT is confabulating

Finding out whether the AI is uncertain about facts or phrasing is the key.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/researchers-describe-how-to-tell-if-chatgpt-is-confabulating/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The thing that a lot of cis people don't get about cis men playing trans women in media, is that it's not just offensive because they're stealing the role from a trans woman or that they are destroying "real representation", the worse part about it and the most transmisogynistic part about it is that by having a cis man play a trans woman, they are literally saying that trans women are just men impersonating women, aka men in dresses. A cis woman playing a trans woman would still be stealing the role from a trans woman, but it would be infinite times less offensive and less transmisogynistic then a cis man playing one, because it would still be a woman playing a woman. Also I'd love to see more trans women playing cis women.

My gender